Serbian-American Inventor: Nikola Tesla

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American Inventor: Thomas Edison

Serbian-American Inventor: Nikola Tesla

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American Inventor: Thomas Edison

Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison

The two were mortal enemies. The inventors both made many things but disagreed with each other.

Tesla said the day after Edison died: "If he had a needle to find in a haystack he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once, with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was almost a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labour."And Edison thought that Tesla's ideas were "splendid but utterly impractical."